In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONDon’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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